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[Chromie]

Hi

Just a technical note: The term "Hobbit" is a trademark.

You can check it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit

Even you are doing a private mod, this is the forum of a "official" game.

I know, its somewhat stupid, but i just want point it out.

Perhaps its a good idea to rename it to "halfling" mod.

I dunno about Wikipedia, but I trust the OED a bit more.

http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50106758?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=hobbit&first=1&max_to_show=10

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   In the tales of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973): one of an imaginary people, a small variety of the human race, that gave themselves this name (meaning ‘hole-dweller’) but were called by others halflings, since they were half the height of normal men. Also attrib. and Comb. Hence hobbitish a., resembling a hobbit, hobbit-like; hobbitomane, a devotee of hobbits; hobbitry, the cult of hobbits; hobbits collectively, or their qualities.

1937 J. R. R. TOLKIEN Hobbit i. 11 In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. 1947 C. S. LEWIS in Ess. presented to C. Williams 104 The Hobbit escapes the danger of degenerating into mere plot and excitement by a very curious shift of tone. As the humour and homeliness of the early chapters, the sheer ‘Hobbitry’, dies away we pass insensibly into the world of epic. 1954 J. R. R. TOLKIEN Fellowship of Ring 7 The memoirs of the renowned Hobbits, Bilbo and Frodo. Ibid. 11 A few notes..are here collected from Hobbit-lore. Ibid. 20 The Thain was..captain of the Shire-muster and the Hobbitry-in-arms. Ibid. 46 It was a tendency of hobbit-holes to get cluttered up. 1955  Return of King 416 Hobbit is an invention. In the Westron the word used, when this people was referred to at all, was banakil ‘halfling’. But..the folk of the Shire and of Bree used the word kuduk... It seems likely that kaduk was a worn-down form of kûd-dûkan [= ‘hole-dweller’]. The latter I have translated..by holbytla [‘hole-builder’]; and hobbit provides a word that might well be a worn-down form of holbytla, if the name had occurred in our own ancient language. 1962 Listener 22 Nov. 881/3 The more ambitious hobbit saga, The Lord of the Rings. Ibid., To those who are already hobbitomanes, this book is bound to be a delight. 1966 New Statesman 11 Nov. 701/2 The newest and richest site of hobbitry is the American campus, where students are said to greet each other with hobbitish salutations such as ‘May your beard never grow less’. 1968 Listener 20 June 790/3 Professer Tolkien was thinking of the average, ambling Englishman when he wrote about his hobbits. 1970 H. PERRY Human Be-In i. 20 The consistently good people in the Tolkien books are Hobbits and they have the lowliest status of all the groups of characters in the books. The hippies thought of themselves as being or becoming Hobbits; from time to time as the winter wore on, a sign would appear in the window of one of their gathering places to this effect: Do not add to the street confusion this weekend... Be good little Hobbits and stay home.

It's the difference between "I bought an apple" and "I bought an Apple". IMO you're safe from litigation, OP.

[dead dwarf]

got my first hobbit merchants.  is the guild rep supposed to conduct a meeting with the manager of the fort?  the rep came but didnt seem to want to talk.

[Tellemurius]

the goblins made it the second time.  going to add the orc mod as well to see how everyone gets along!

i already did that to my hobbit mod

[dead dwarf]

now the guild rep isn't leaving.  all the hobbits have left but the guild rep is just standing in my dinning room.  on a side note, the dwarf liason never came to my fortress but is just lying unconcious outside.  i wonder if there is a correlation.